A Coupled Statistical Learning and Machine Learning Framework for Global Daily Seamless Secchi Disk Depth Reconstruction (1998-2023)
ID:1137
Oral Presentation
2027-01-13 16:35 (China Standard Time)
Session:Session 64 - Advancing Climate Data Records: Creation and Application of Long-term Ocean Color Products
Abstract
Secchi Disk Depth (ZSD) is a crucial indicator characterizing marine ecological environment, playing a key role in monitoring water clarity and understanding climate-driven processes. Despite recent advances in satellite remote sensing retrieval of ZSD, existing products remain constrained by deficiencies in reliability, temporal continuity, and spatial completeness in coastal waters. To address these limitations, we propose a coupled reconstruction framework (DCT-XGB) to generate a global, daily, high-accuracy, and seamless ZSD dataset (65°N-65°S, 4 km resolution) from multi-satellite merged OC-CCI remote sensing reflectance data (1998–2023). Building upon reliable retrieval results (APDm = 28.9%), we developed the DCT-XGB model (APDm = 23.5%) to reconstruct missing regions by integrating traditional statistical learning (Discrete Cosine Transform-Penalized Least Squares, DCT-PLS) and machine learning (Extreme Gradient Boosting, XGBoost). Specifically, it fuses the DCT-PLS-derived ZSD background field with environmental and temporal drivers (Mixed Layer Depth, Sea Surface Temperature, Month, Day of Year) to produce the final gap-free product. Independent evaluation with in situ observation reveals that this product has substantially higher overall accuracy (APDm = 27.5%) than the existing GlobColour product (APDm = 56.1%). Notably, in low-ZSD waters (ZSD≤5m), the new product improves accuracy by 37%. Furthermore, the new product reliably reproduces the time-series characteristics of in situ ZSD at validation stations, with higher correlation (R2 = 0.59±0.15) and lower error (APDm = 16.3%±5.3%) compared to GlobColour (R2 = 0.22±0.19, APDm = 36.0%±16.6%). Trend analysis based on the new product reveals a significant contracting trend (–1.9×10⁴ km² yr⁻¹, P < 0.01) in low-ZSD coastal waters across the global ocean over the past 26 years, a feature that cannot be captured by the GlobColour product due to its limited accuracy. In summary, the proposed framework and the resulting global daily ZSD product represent a significant breakthrough in spatial completeness, temporal continuity, and coastal accuracy. By effectively overcoming the spatiotemporal discontinuities of existing satellite records, this work provides high-quality, long-term data essential for marine ecological monitoring and global climate change research.
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